george town, cayman islands

The Reggae Boyz recorded their second successive victory on their Grand Cayman tour on Sunday with a 2-0 win over a combative Cayman Islands national team.

Yesterday's win followed a 6-1 whipping of a Cayman Islands All-Stars team on Wednesday. Powering the Reggae boys to victory were strikes by Omar Cummings, his first for Jamaica, in the 42nd minute and substitute Roland Dean in the 58th.

Tougher time

The visitors had a much tougher time on Sunday than they did last Wednesday as they came up on a very organised Cayman Islands team. Head coach Carl Brown crowded the midfield and restricted the mobility of the Reggae Boyz.

The visitors were also greeted with some physical play with midfielder Rudolph Austin and Denzil Watson, in particular, coming in for some rough treatment.

Despite the close attention paid to them, the Boyz managed to shrug off the stranglehold from time to time. Their first real effort at goal came in the fourth minute when Austin burst through the midfield and drove a solid right-footer just wide of the mark. Four minutes later Austin was at it again when Jermaine Hue was cut down just outside the 18-yard box. Austin's drive at goal was blocked.

Good support

The voices of the Jamaican supporters would drown out all others three minutes before half-time as Cummings opened the scoring.

The goal resulted from a lovely move deep inside the Jamaican half with central defender Jermaine Taylor feeding Austin who had drifted into defence. Austin, in turn, found Cousins in the centre of midfield. Cousins raking pass down the right found Vernan who bolted forward and crossed perfectly for Cummings to head home.

The second half saw both teams ringing the changes without much success until Dean received a defence-splitting pass and managed to finish clinically.